resentful - Story 117316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd started signing off his emails with a flourish, a phrase in her dialect she hadn't heard in years. It was as if he was trying to reclaim a piece of her. Each time she read it, a bitter taste filled her mouth.

She sat at her desk, staring at the screen, her own reply left unsent. Her hands felt clumsy, her thoughts scattered. She rubbed at her temples, trying to clear her head. The weight in her chest was growing.

Emotion: resentful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.47 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resentful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 resentful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resentful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resentful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210